Verse_Lyric: 1
1. Angels we have heard on high, 

sweetly singing o’er the plains;

and the mountains in reply, 

echoing their joyous strains.



Verse_Lyric: 2
2. Shepherds, why this jubilee?

Why your joyous strains prolong?

What the gladsome tidings be

which inspire your heav’nly song?

Verse_Lyric: 3
3. Come to Bethlehem and see 

Him whose birth the angels sing;

come, adore on bended knee 

Christ the Lord, the newborn King.

Chorus_Lyric: 1
Gloria in excelsis Deo!